"Buffoonery and Easy Sentiment"(1st Edition) Popular Irish Plays in the Decade Prior to the Opening of The Abbey Theatre by ChristopherFitz-Simon Paperback, 318 Pages, Published 2011 by Carysfort Press Limited ISBN-13: 978-1-904505-49-5, ISBN: 1-904505-49-X
"In this fascinating reappraisal of the non-literary drama of the late 19th and early 20th century, Christopher Fitz-Simon discloses a unique world of plays, players, and producers in metropolitan theatres in Ireland and other countries, where Ireland was viewed as a source of extraordinary topics such as revolution, eviction, famine, agrarian agitation, and political assassination. Plays of the time were diverse, including those such as ..."
Eleven Houses A Memoir of Childhood by ChristopherFitz-Simon 304 Pages, Published 2013 by Penguin ISBN-13: 978-0-14-190114-5, ISBN: 0-14-190114-4
"Eleven Houses is a crystalline memoir of his family's odd progress through those odd years, an account by turns hilarious and heartbreaking.Christopher's father was an officer in the British army, serving in the middle east when war broke ..."
"Many a travel picture book is designed to make us dream, and like its equivalent in the cookery field, we can often gaze lovingly at things that we will have no experience of. Christopher Fitz-Simon's The Most Beautiful Villages of Ireland, however, produces an immediate effect that was probably the author's prime intention: within mere pages of this sumptuously illustrated book, the reader is filled with the keenest desire to visit the ..."
"Einen Bildband mit malerischen Dörfern zu füllen, stellt in Irland ein echtes Problem dar. Denn: Es sind derer zu viele. Auf der (tatsächlich) Grünen Insel erweckt gerade mal Dublin beim Reisenden den Eindruck städtischer Betriebsamkeit und Dimensionen, wenngleich doch immer nach irischen Maßstäben. Autor Christopher Fitz-Simon wählte seine schönsten Dörfer daher auch nach einem zweiten Kriterium aus: Vielfalt der Farben, der Formen. Z ..."